Re: Do Tor options FascistFirewall and ReachableAddresses have anything to do with each other?

[Roger Dingledine <arma@xxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 02:09:55PM -0500, Fran Litterio wrote:
> The Tor manual at:
> 
> https://www.torproject.org/tor-manual.html.en
> 
> is unclear whether option FascistFirewall must be set to 1 in order for
> option ReachableAddresses to be honored. The description of FascistFirewall
> says it must be set to 1 for option FirewallPorts to be honored, and the
> description of FirewallPorts says it is deprecated in favor of
> ReachableAddresses, but the link (or absence thereof) between
> FascistFirewall and ReachableAddresses is unspecified.
> 
> Can anyone shed some light on this issue?

"FascistFirewall 1" is a shorthand for "ReachableORAddresses *:443,
ReachableDirAddresses *:80".

If you want to be more fine-grained, use Reachable*Addresses. If you
want to be quick and it does what you want, use FascistFirewall.

--Roger